TimeShift Review
Not Recommended
Mediocre shooter with porting and technological issues.
The gameplay idea and mechanic is pretty interesting; you control time; slow it down, stop it, or even reverse it.
However, that does not make the game fun.
The presentation is pretty good at places, but the shooting is very generic, unprecise (big crosshair where shots seemed off of the central point), and unrewarding.
Graphics are pretty mediocre.
Levels are very linear, with the occasional wait for trigger or wait for NPC scene.
As for the technological side of things:
The key bindings are totally off - a bad port from consoles.
The game first launched on my smaller, second monitor. I had to fiddle with ini configuration files to increase resolution and make it automatically decide to use the other monitor (good luck if you have multiple monitors with the same resolution).
Especially in the tutorial, I noticed *big* hung-ups when I entered new areas, even rooms, where it probably loaded some data. A bit later, you occasionally slow down, simply walking a lot slower, which probably hides the loadung unresponsiveness. Hung-ups are definitely not something you like to see on a powerful PC.
When launching, it tells me my drivers are not supported, twice, and links me to a dead website.
All in all, I had no fun at all in the little I played (I did press through the tutorial to see if the game itself, with the time manipulation aspect was any fun, but it was not), and with the technological issues, I’m thinking about refunding the game - because I certainly won’t play it any more.
Definitely no recommendation.
The gameplay idea and mechanic is pretty interesting; you control time; slow it down, stop it, or even reverse it.
However, that does not make the game fun.
The presentation is pretty good at places, but the shooting is very generic, unprecise (big crosshair where shots seemed off of the central point), and unrewarding.
Graphics are pretty mediocre.
Levels are very linear, with the occasional wait for trigger or wait for NPC scene.
As for the technological side of things:
The key bindings are totally off - a bad port from consoles.
The game first launched on my smaller, second monitor. I had to fiddle with ini configuration files to increase resolution and make it automatically decide to use the other monitor (good luck if you have multiple monitors with the same resolution).
Especially in the tutorial, I noticed *big* hung-ups when I entered new areas, even rooms, where it probably loaded some data. A bit later, you occasionally slow down, simply walking a lot slower, which probably hides the loadung unresponsiveness. Hung-ups are definitely not something you like to see on a powerful PC.
When launching, it tells me my drivers are not supported, twice, and links me to a dead website.
All in all, I had no fun at all in the little I played (I did press through the tutorial to see if the game itself, with the time manipulation aspect was any fun, but it was not), and with the technological issues, I’m thinking about refunding the game - because I certainly won’t play it any more.
Definitely no recommendation.